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I'm tired of paying for lazy idiots on welfare! (Original Post) Scuba Apr 2014 OP
k and r niyad Apr 2014 #1
K & R Sailingdiver Apr 2014 #2
K & R !!! WillyT Apr 2014 #3
I'm tired of paying oil subsidies and corporate tax incentives. Initech Apr 2014 #4
Excellent! K&R passiveporcupine Apr 2014 #5
K & R ..I'm tired of the MIC and Pentagon draining this country dry. L0oniX Apr 2014 #6
+1 Enthusiast Apr 2014 #13
Love the first photo . No words needed . Excellent . geretogo Apr 2014 #26
K&R! 2naSalit Apr 2014 #7
K & R daschess1987 Apr 2014 #8
I'm tired of being tired of all of that. zeemike Apr 2014 #9
I'm sooooo tired of the corporate welfare kings and queens. Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2014 #10
And that is not the half of it. merrily Apr 2014 #11
Exactly! herding cats Apr 2014 #12
I'm tired of profit over people. -nt CrispyQ Apr 2014 #14
K&R Tribalceltic Apr 2014 #15
Amen, brother demigoddess Apr 2014 #16
K and effin' R! Lizzie Poppet Apr 2014 #17
K&R! Aristus Apr 2014 #18
I'm tired of economics that trickle UP. DirkGently Apr 2014 #19
Yeah, ain't that a kick in the pants! I smell a rat..... AAO Apr 2014 #24
Hear! Hear! indepat Apr 2014 #20
i am really tired !!! unionthug777 Apr 2014 #21
not very well done imo Mosby Apr 2014 #22
"I'm tired of giving Israel 8 million a day..." mikeysnot Apr 2014 #23
So now what are we going to do about it? DeSwiss Apr 2014 #25
Good one. JohnnyRingo Apr 2014 #27
I wonder how much O'Reilly sends to the pentagon? Blanks Apr 2014 #31
K and R (nt) bigwillq Apr 2014 #28
Yes I am also tired of the oligarchs stepping on our throats. Looks like The Group either rhett o rick Apr 2014 #29
Truly a k&r day SummerSnow Apr 2014 #30
You've sure got this right PatrickforO Apr 2014 #32

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
9. I'm tired of being tired of all of that.
Tue Apr 29, 2014, 11:32 PM
Apr 2014

This shit has been going on for decades now with no end in sight...and when we have hope for change we do get fooled again.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
11. And that is not the half of it.
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 12:59 AM
Apr 2014

Remember a few years back, how General Electric Corporation owed no taxes at all?

How about pharmaceutical companies? And on and on.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024350568

America, Incorporated.

demigoddess

(6,640 posts)
16. Amen, brother
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 12:28 PM
Apr 2014

This is exactly why we have to vote out all republicans and put pressure on the democrats to move left.

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)
19. I'm tired of economics that trickle UP.
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 12:50 PM
Apr 2014


It's so weird. We give and give and give to the rich, and contrary to everything we've been told they just ... keep it.


Huh.



mikeysnot

(4,756 posts)
23. "I'm tired of giving Israel 8 million a day..."
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 05:34 PM
Apr 2014

that is going to get one particular DU user's undies in a bundle...

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
25. So now what are we going to do about it?
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 06:03 PM
Apr 2014
- Voting for people to do what we want seems to have hit a wall.

K&R

JohnnyRingo

(18,618 posts)
27. Good one.
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 06:41 PM
Apr 2014

I've heard Bill O'Reilly take the serious side of this argument where he carps about how he "donates money" to the "social programs" he approves of, so he doesn't want his taxes to go to people he presumably doesn't think is deserving enough. He explains this with a surprisingly straight face.

The point is lost to him that everyone has a short list of things we don't want the govt spending our tax money on, but no one in charge cares. He just thinks he's freaking special because he's on TV and he "works hard for his money", as he so snobbishly puts it.

K&R. Thanx for posting.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
31. I wonder how much O'Reilly sends to the pentagon?
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 09:00 PM
Apr 2014

Because if we got to choose, I don't think I'd pay the taxes that go toward bombing other countries.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
29. Yes I am also tired of the oligarchs stepping on our throats. Looks like The Group either
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 07:33 PM
Apr 2014

isnt tired or maybe they boycott all your threads. Just as well they'd only bring........

PatrickforO

(14,558 posts)
32. You've sure got this right
Wed Apr 30, 2014, 09:23 PM
Apr 2014

The idiots on welfare are:
1. CEO's and Boards of Directors who continue to 'vote' each other exorbitant salaries while driving their labor further into poverty

2. The corporate managers who consistently put policies in place to maximize profits at the expense of their workers and their customers

3. Those same corporations who are only hiring part time people and not offering any benefits

4. The corporations who steal pensions from workers and fight tooth and nail to break unions

5. The Congress which created tax loopholes that allow over 30 Fortune 500 companies to not pay any income tax

6. The neoconservatives who blindly believe that keeping this nation on a constant war footing is a good idea because then retiring generals can have cushy jobs while our weapons kill innocent people worldwide

7. The neoliberals who blindly believe that we should deregulate, privatize and cut out social spending so we can have a much less restrained version of capitalism

As my parents used to say, these people are burning both ends against the middle, and pretty soon there won't be any middle left. Then, when people rise up in massive social unrest that turns into a horrible, bloody anarchy, what they think they have built will disappear. Hopefully, this monstrous and brutal way of life can be replaced by a world of social and economic justice.

Think we're capable as a species of making this world what it should be?

Nah. We are the only species of which it can be said that if we went extinct, all other life on the planet would actually be better off.

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